Atlanta pop festival ends
BYRON, Ga. (UPI)—Thousands of youths, apparently exhausted from two days of hard rock drugs and staggering heat, headed for home Sunday in the third and final day of the Atlanta International Pop Festival — perhaps the last of its kind they will ever see.
More than 500,000 persons crowded around the festival area Saturday night. Chagrinred promoters tore down their ticket booths and declared the festival free to all to prevent violence.
It was apparently bigger than last summer's Woodstock festival. Only about 100,000 appeared planning to stay for Sunday night's final hours of music. They wandered—many topless and some entirely nude—around the 300-acre soybean patch stuffing garbage into plastic bags and
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cooling off under open showers while a wizened guru intoned the wisdom of the east into a microphone.
Festival organizers said the action of about 14,000 youths who gathered at the gates Saturday and started chanting "in, in, in," may end the rock festival phenomenon in the country. The festival was thrown open, but Cooley said "This may well kill pop festivals as we know them. Money is a basic need."
Announcement of a medical emergency due to drug overdoses Saturday night appeared to have been misleading. Dr. Joseph Hertel, acting as head of the physicians who volunteered their services here, sent a message to his headquarters asking for state and federal aid and urging the festival be declared a "medical disaster area" because of drug abuses.
But other doctors said "We haven't seen anything we couldn't handle." They said Hertel became
concerned Saturday night when ambulances were unable to cut through the gigantic traffic jam to evacuate persons suffering injuries that couldn't be treated in the six medical tents set up around the area.
Two helicopters from Ft. Benning were brought in to make the evacuations. None of the evacuations was due to drug overdoses.
Gone with the wind
PRESTWICK, Scotland (UPI)
—Richard Torbitt, 13, found a parachute while walking with friends Wednesday on a Prestwick beach and decided to put it on.
A sudden gust of wind came along, dragging Richard off before his friends could help him. He was rescued a short time later when the parachute caught on the edge of a nearby house.
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